TheTYG MIES of the Ancients. ii 



haXixhvtoTt;rl Tn^oiitoit; ajntm, f(^i e mart ad infiiUm ^rojeUk. Aiidii- 



•OT379va TJ^iiOf roj"? th^/ ■t 'iHowomv, M- ces minimi funt, ut fiojirk conj^e&is 



^a)v''^&>t Sfs.Xcu^i'jov o<^e^oev^}i^i-)(%vo6v, hom'mihm^ quern ad'modtim nos vifa. 



T" %!Xi '^ BaXdasYic, ug t vnmv ^OTppivr- ingenti fera^ metu ^erculji fnerint. 



* That Nonnofi0 failing from Pharfa, when he came to the farthermoil: 

 * of the Iflands, a thing, very ftrange to be heard of, happened to him 5, 

 ' for he lighted on fome (Animals) in (hape and appearance like Men^ 

 ' but little of ftature, and of a black colour, and thick covered with 

 ' hair all over their Bodies. The Women, who were of the fame fta-^ 

 ' ture, followed the Men : They were all naked,only the Elder of them,' 

 ' both Men and Women, covered their Privy Parts with a fmall Skin. 

 ' They feeraed not at all fierce or wild ; they had a Humane Voice, but 

 ' their £)/^/e(!? was altogether unknown to every Body that lived about 

 ' them 5 much more tothofe that were with Nonnofus. They liv'd upon 

 ' Sea Oyfters, and FiQi that were caft out of the Sea, upon the Illand. 

 ' They had no Courage 5 for feeing our Men, they were frighted, as we 

 ' are at the fight of the greatefi: wild Beafl:. 



^xvlw &i-)(Ov fjLiv dvQpooTnvloj I render here, they had a Humane Voice ^ not 

 Speech : for had they fpoke any Language, tho' their D/aleSf might be 

 fomewhat dift'erent, yet no doubt but fome of the Neighbourhood would 

 have underftood fomething of it, and not have been fuch utter Strangers 

 to it. Now 'twas obferved of the Orang-Oatang^ that it's Voice was like 

 the Humane, and it would makeaNoifelikea Child, but never was ob- 

 ferved to fpeak, tho' it had the Organs of Speech exaftly formed as they 

 are in Man ^ and no Account that ever has been given of this Animal 

 do's pretend that ever it did. I fhould rather agree to what Vliny (f) men- 

 tions, ^iihttfdam pro Sermone nutr^ moUifque Membroriim eji ^ and that they 

 had no more a Speech, than Ctejiashis Cynocephali which could only bark, 

 as the fame VUny (g) rem.arks ^ where he faith, In midtk aittem Montibm 

 Genus Hominum Captiihus Can'tnk , ferarum pellibus velari, pro voce latra- 

 tnm edere, nngttibm armatum venatu ^ Aucupio vefci^ hornm fiipm Centum 

 -viginti MiUiafniJJe prodente fe Ctejiasfcribit. But in Photi?0 I find , that 

 Ctejias's Cynocephali did fpeak the Indian Language as well as the Pygmies. 

 Thofe therefore in 'Nonnoftis fince they did not fpeak the Indian^ I doubt, 

 fpoke no Language at all 5 or at leaft, no more than other Brutes do. 



Ctefioi I find is the only Author that ever underftood what Language 

 'twas' that the Pygmies fpake : For Herodotus (h) owns that they ufe a 

 fort of Tongue like to no other, but fcreech like Bats. He faith, Of Ta.- 



f f ) Plinij Nat. H'lfl. lib. 6. cap. 50. p. m. 741, (g) Ptmi] Nat. Hifl. lib. 7. cap. 2, p. m. 1 1. 

 (h) Herodot. in Mdpmem. pag. 283. 



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